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The Bread-winners: A Social StudyJohn Hay

The Bread-winners: A Social Study

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Original author: John Hay

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"The Bread-winners: A Social Study" by John Hay is a novel published anonymously in 1883. When a violent general strike threatens an American city, wealthy Civil War veteran Captain Arthur Farnham organizes fellow veterans to maintain order against the Bread-winners, a group of discontented workers. Meanwhile, he navigates romantic entanglements with an ambitious carpenter's daughter and a woman of his own social class. This anti-labor novel sparked intense public speculation about its author's identity and reflected tensions between capital and labor in America's Gilded Age.

The Bread-winners: A Social Study, by John Hay. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #16321.

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20 Chapters

  1. 1.Chapter I: A Morning Call3,140 words
  2. 2.Chapter II: A High-School Graduate6,195 words
  3. 3.Chapter III: The Widow and Her Daughter3,306 words
  4. 4.Chapter IV: Protector and Protegee5,489 words
  5. 5.Chapter V: A Professional Reformer3,023 words
  6. 6.Chapter VI: Two Men Shake Hands3,417 words
  7. 7.Chapter VII: Ghostly Counsel4,191 words
  8. 8.Chapter VIII: A Bud and a Blossom2,689 words
  9. 9.Chapter IX: A Drama with Two Spectators5,032 words
  10. 10.Chapter X: A Word Out of Season4,970 words
  1. 11.Chapter XI: The Santa Rita Sherry5,953 words
  2. 12.Chapter XII: A Holiday Not in the Calendar2,995 words
  3. 13.Chapter XIII: A Busy Sunday for the Matchins4,516 words
  4. 14.Chapter XIV4,258 words
  5. 15.Chapter XV: The Whip of the Scythians3,631 words
  6. 16.Chapter XVI: Offitt Digs a Pit3,097 words
  7. 17.Chapter XVII: In and Out of Windows3,936 words
  8. 18.Chapter XVIII: Offitt Plans a Long Journey5,097 words
  9. 19.Chapter XIX: A Leap for Somebody's Life4,285 words
  10. 20.Chapter XX: "now Do You Remember?"3,408 words